Product name
Heat, for district heating, Norwegian production mix, at plant
Reference flow
1 kWh
System boundaries
Production mix of district heat in Norway in 2020, based on information on energy carriers from Norsk Fjernvarme. The activity starts with acquisition of energy carriers, i.e., waste reception at gate, acquisition and transport of fossil oil and gas, harvesting and transport of woody biomass, and production, transformation from high to low voltage and transmission of electricity. The activity stops at district heat production facility (i.e. distribution is not included).
Use advice of the dataset
This dataset represents the district heat production mix in Norway in the year 2020. Data on heat production and share of different energy carriers are collected from www.fjernkontrollen.no. ecoinvent 3.7 allocation, cut-off by classification is used for the background data.
Technology description
Average technology for production and transmission of electricity in Norway. Heat from the other sources based on average European technologies. One technology is selected to represent each category of energy carriers. For fuel oil, light fuel oil is selected. For ambient heat, heat pump is selected. For bioenergy, wood logs combustion is used as representative technology.
Quality level
Good
Location
Norway
Geographical representativeness description
Total heat production and share of sources are representative for Norway. Background data are representative for European technology.
Quality level
Good
Reference year
2020
Time representativeness description
Annual production.
Time quality level
Very good
LCI method principle
Attributional
Other comments on methods approaches
Allocation cut-off by classification in background data.
Data treatment and extrapolations principles
The energy carriers are given by Norsk Fjernvarme. One technology is selected to represent each category of energy carriers. For fuel oil, light fuel oil is selected. For ambient heat, heat pump is selected. For bioenergy, wood logs combustion is used as representative technology.
Data collection period
2020
Data set generator
Ellen Soldal
References
Norsk Fjernvarme (2021). Fjernkontrollen.no. [online] Available at https://www.fjernkontrollen.no/ Webpage. Access date: 27.08.2021.
Access and use restrictions
Open
